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Recent Examples of buffoonery What’s so special about Britain’s patron wanker of bighearted buffoonery? Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025 Fans are fixated on his greatness juxtaposed against the rest of the Bengals’ buffoonery. The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025 Either way the brilliance or buffoonery of that idea will shine through. Alex Montoya, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025 Famously, Tommy Lee Jones could not sanction Jim Carrey’s buffoonery on Batman Forever. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for buffoonery
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Noun
  • Another aspect to note is that the AI didn’t ridicule me or otherwise play any tomfoolery about my need for assistance.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
  • Its closest relative is Halloween, another holiday rooted in tomfoolery and chaos that unites and divides us in equal measure.
    Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Tirhakah Love is a senior writer at New York Magazine and the host of the new evening newsletter Dinner Party, a daily email that touches on all things entertainment — that means film, television, music, tech, and gaming — plus politics and corporate clownery.
    Vulture, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The Winx Club live action is a big clownery!
    Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 25 Jan. 2021
Noun
  • The action anime feature for everyone who couldn’t get enough of the horseplay in The Two Towers has finally cantered onto Max.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Mike Vrabel’s back And the horseplay is going to stop, apparently.
    Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Eric Andre, Tyler the Creator and Machine Gun Kelly all drop by to participate in the Jack-foolery.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The whole of humanity doesn’t fit tidily into three acts, even assuming as much frame-breaking foolery as Wilder allows.
    New York Times, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
Noun
  • Night Court captured audiences through the '80s with slapstick comedy and slow-burn romances — many of which were left unresolved when the show concluded in 1992.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 6 May 2025
  • With hyperpop-ish glee, Barbie veered between musical, slapstick comedy, and melodrama.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025

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“Buffoonery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buffoonery. Accessed 14 May. 2025.

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